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			Book Title: Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers		

					Subtitle: ...and other people who care about facts.

							Author: Mike Caulfield

				
							
									

												
					





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			Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers

	Acknowledgments

	Updated Resources for 2021

	I. Four Moves and a Habit
	1. Why This Book?

	2. Four Moves

	3. Building a Fact-Checking Habit by Checking Your Emotions



	II. Look for Previous Work
	4. How to Use Previous Work

	5. Fact-checking Sites

	6. Wikipedia



	III. Go Upstream
	7. Go Upstream to Find the Source

	8. Identifying Sponsored Content

	9. Activity: Spot Sponsored Content

	10. Understanding Syndication

	11. Tracking the Source of Viral Content

	12. Tracking the Source of Viral Photos

	13. Using Google Reverse Image Search

	14. Filtering by Time and Place to Find the Original

	15. Activity: Trace Viral Photos Upstream



	IV. Read Laterally
	16. What "Reading Laterally" Means

	17. Evaluating a Website or Publication's Authority

	18. Basic Techniques: Domain Searches, WHOIS

	19. Activity: Evaluate a Site

	20. Stupid Journal Tricks

	21. Finding a Journal's Impact Factor

	22. Using Google Scholar to Check Author Expertise

	23. How to Think about Research

	24. Finding High Quality Secondary Sources

	25. Choosing Your Experts First

	26. Evaluating News Sources

	27. What Makes a Trustworthy News Source?

	28. National Newspapers of Record

	29. Activity: Expert or Crank?

	30. Activity: Find Top Authorities for a Subject



	V. Field Guide
	31. Verifying Twitter Identity

	32. Activity: Verify a Twitter Account

	33. Using the Wayback Machine to Check for Page Changes

	34. Finding Out When a Page Was Published Using Google

	35. Citation Rates

	36. Using Google Books to Track Down Quotes

	37. Understanding Astroturf

	38. Searching TV Transcripts with the Internet Archive

	39. Treating Google's "Snippets" with Suspicion

	40. Using Buzzsumo to Find Highly Viral Stories

	41. Finding Out Who Owns a Domain

	42. Avoiding Confirmation Bias in Searches

	43. Promoted Tweets

	44. Finding Old Newspaper Articles

	45. Using the Facebook Live Map to Find Breaking Coverage



	VI. Accessibility
	46. Image Descriptions

	47. "Fact-Checking Sites" Image Descriptions

	48. "How to Use Previous Work" Image Descriptions

	49. "Go Upstream to Find the Source" Image Descriptions



	Appendix

	How DigiPo Defines a "Fact"


 

		

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												Mike Caulfield
					

							

						
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Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Michael A. Caulfield is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

			

					

			


	
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						Title
	Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers



										
								Author
	
							Mike Caulfield								



												
								License
	
							
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Michael A. Caulfield is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

								



												
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							Self-published								



												
								Publication Date
	
							January 8, 2017								



									
		

			

	
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